Hello? Steam? You have an opening available? The rise of Japanese games on Steam, 2010 to today To understand why Japanese games are now poised for a huge breakthrough on PC-and why it's taken so long for that boulder to get up to speed-I spoke with developers and publishers in the US and Japan about the rise of Japanese PC games in the West and at home. Sales numbers alone weren't enough to lead to change overnight. It's been a slow accrual of momentum, a boulder gathering speed as it prepares to tumble full-tilt downhill. Since Dark Souls in 2012 new consoles launched with hardware very similar to PCs, once-niche games like Valkyria Chronicles rocketed towards a million sales, and visual novels that would once have required fan translations plastered Steam. ![]()
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